fall headlong
Example Sentences
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Again & again wily Senator Black would trip Witness Hopson up, cause him to fall headlong into puddles of contradiction.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was equally dangerous to remain fixed in space, or to fall headlong upon a planet and be smashed, or be buried miles deep if the projectile did not collapse.
From Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner by Douglass, Ellsworth
With this strap they walk along on the tow-path of the canal, pulling in this way—so that if the cord should break, I should think they would fall headlong on the ground.
From Rollo in Holland by Abbott, Jacob
I had thought he would fall headlong down the ladder, so distractedly did he behave himself, and called upon him sharply to tell me wherein lay this danger to Idonia he affected to fear.
From Idonia: A Romance of Old London by Wallis, Arthur F.
I need only mention your name, at the proper time and place, to see you fall headlong; but I dream, in a manner, the same dream myself.
From The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin
